THE INDEX

Every paper we have read

Each one summarised from the full article, not its abstract, and kept only if it speaks to physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech-language pathology or nursing. Newest first.

35,183 PAPERS · PAGE 672 OF 704 · NEWEST FIRST

• PTOTCohort2026Early post-hospital trajectories of health-related quality of life for younger adult patients with traumatic brain injury.Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitationMental quality of life did not improve over 8 weeks after hospital discharge for traumatic brain injury. Physical quality of life did improve, from 30.5 to 34.8 out of 100, still below the 43 to 47 the scale treats as low quality of life.
• SLPSurvey2026Association between the feeling of vocal comfort and social security when wearing a protective mask: a study with transgender people.CoDASThree quarters of 85 transgender adults said wearing a face mask made them feel socially safer, while just over half found masks uncomfortable. Comfort with the mask was the only thing that predicted feeling safer.
• SLPOther2026Content-based validity evidence of the Acute Voice Fatigue Self-Perception Scale (AFA-Voz Scale).CoDASA new scale asks voice users to rate right now their fatigue, neck or throat discomfort, and limitation in voice use, each from 0 to 10. Five voice experts judged every item fully relevant. It has not been tested with patients, so it is not ready for clinical use.
• PTQualitative2026Stakeholder Perceptions of an Abbreviated Survey to Assess the Accessibility of Community-Based Physical Activity for People With Limited Mobility.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationPeople with mobility limitations said what separated a usable gym from a wasted trip: staff trained and ready to help, working equipment and elevators, and facilities that delivered what they advertised. They rated the draft accessibility survey usable but wanted symbols and fewer items.
• SLPCase Report2026Communication development of a child with autism, the son of deaf parents, using alternative communication: a case report.CoDASOne non-speaking 5-year-old with autism, whose deaf parents use sign language, improved on a parent-completed behaviour checklist and a clinician-rated communication assessment over nine months of therapy with a picture book paired with sign language. One child cannot show a treatment works.
• PTRCT2026Effects of home-based cardiac rehabilitation integrated in the cardiac care bridge transitional care program on the physical functioning of older patients who are frail: secondary analysis of a randomized trial.Physical therapyHome-based cardiac rehabilitation added to a transitional-care program improved physical function at six months in frail older cardiac patients, by 0.8 points on a 12-point scale. The gain lost significance once missing patients were accounted for, and no other measure improved.
• PTCohort2026Immediate Effect of Four Exercises on Linea Alba Thickness, Distortion and Inter-Recti Distance in Parous Women.Physiotherapy research international : the journal for researchers and clinicians in physical therapyNo exercise narrowed the gap between the abdominal muscles more than the others. The crunch stretched the linea alba most; the drawing-in, pelvic floor and de Gasquet exercises kept it closer to rest. These are immediate ultrasound changes only.
• PTCohort2025A brief work-oriented intervention targeting musculoskeletal and mental health disorders: Exploring work disability outcomes in a prospective study.Work (Reading, Mass.)Overall the programme did not cut disability pensions. People referred within the first month of sick leave were more likely to end up on one than sick-listed people not referred. Lower risk appeared only around three to six months of sick leave.
• OTQualitative2025Job crafting motives and strategies to increase work-related well-being among healthcare employees.Work (Reading, Mass.)Healthcare staff reshaped their jobs for four reasons: to develop, to contribute to a common good, to make work meaningful, and to keep the day manageable. Some deliberately crafted less, or not at all, to protect their energy.
• OTPilot2025Testing the feasibility of 30 min of daily outdoor office work for stress management: A pilot study.Work (Reading, Mass.)Eight office workers rated their stress lower during a week with at least 30 minutes of outdoor work each day (mean 4.42 versus 3.74), but the non-parametric test found no significant difference and only eight people took part.
• OTCohort2026Time to Medication Initiation in School-age Children With ADHD in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics.Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBPAbout 59% of school-age children diagnosed with ADHD in developmental-behavioral clinics were prescribed medication within a year, with a median wait of 4 days. Children waited longer if a psychologist diagnosed them, if they were Asian, or if they had co-occurring conditions.
• SLPCohort2026Cortical auditory evoked potential with different speech stimuli in children with asymptomatic congenital cytomegalovirus infection.CoDASChildren with asymptomatic congenital CMV, all with normal hearing and language, showed a less well-defined N1 and P2 waveform and a larger N2 response to speech sounds than unexposed children. Small cross-sectional study, so no evidence these differences cause language problems.
• PTOther2026Reaching a consensus on a patellofemoral pain syndrome self-management programme for recreational cyclists in Saudi Arabia: A modified Delphi study.The South African journal of physiotherapyExperts agreed that a self-management programme for Saudi recreational cyclists with patellofemoral pain should cover pain education, self-screening, cycling-specific bike adjustments, Arabic-language resources and scheduling that fits around religious practice. Nothing here has been tested on patients yet.
• PTOTSLPSystematic Review2026Delivering Health Education to Children With Chronic Conditions: A Scoping Review and Evidence and Gap Map.Child: care, health and developmentOnly 16 of 118 studies of health education for children with chronic conditions described any adaptation for children with disabilities, mostly for cognition. Most education taught disease facts face to face in hospital clinics, and few programmes were individualised or designed with children.
• Other2026Resistance Exercise as a Dual-Target Strategy in Physical Therapy: Reducing Depressive Symptoms to Improve Rehabilitation Participation and Outcomes.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationAn argument, not a trial. The authors propose that resistance exercise in physical therapy can be deliberately framed to target mood, self-efficacy and engagement alongside strength, and set out delivery principles and example doses. No patients were studied and no outcomes reported.
• PTSystematic Review2026Effectiveness of Telerehabilitation in the Treatment of Shoulder Injuries: A Systematic Review of Randomized Clinical Trials.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationTelerehabilitation for shoulder injuries gave results comparable to in-person care across the five trials reviewed, with satisfaction and adherence equally high. But the trials were small, their comparison groups varied, and the review never combined the results.
• SLPOther2026Glottal Area Waveform Measurements for Healthy Female and Male Speakers in Typical, High-Frequency, and Soft Phonation.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHRTo raise pitch, healthy adults mainly stretched the vocal folds with the cricothyroid muscle. Soft voice needed that plus less firm closure of the folds. Men and women started from different baselines, so normal values differ by sex.
• PTSystematic Review2026Precision Rehabilitation in Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review of Omics Applications for Intervention Monitoring in Spinal Cord Injury.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationMolecular tests on blood, muscle and stool did change after exercise, electrical stimulation, diet and hormone treatments for spinal cord injury, but nearly all 23 studies were small, short and rated only moderate quality. None of it is ready to guide treatment.
• OTQualitative2025The potential of place-based occupational therapy to support aging-in-place: A qualitative study.Hong Kong journal of occupational therapy : HKJOTThe seven therapists said placing occupational therapy in the client's own neighbourhood, using the streets and shops they already walk, could fill the gap between hospital discharge and day rehabilitation and keep caregivers involved. All said subsidies and hospital endorsement would decide whether it happens.
• OTSurvey2026Occupational Therapy for Children With DCD and Academic Difficulties: A Pan-Canadian Survey.Canadian journal of occupational therapy. Revue canadienne d'ergotherapieAlmost every Canadian OT surveyed (99%) assessed academic activities in children with DCD, but handwriting dominated (96% assessed, 85% treated), ahead of writing, maths and reading, even though maths difficulties affect up to 90%.
• OTCase-Control2026Event- and Time-Based Prospective Memory and Time Perception in Autistic Adults With and Without Intellectual Disabilities.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism ResearchAutistic adults were worse on a game testing whether they remembered to do things, but the gap disappeared once the groups' different vocabulary scores were taken into account. Judging how many minutes had passed during the session was where they stayed less accurate.
• SLPCohort2026Turn-Taking and Vocal Coordination in Mother-Child Mixed-Hearing Dyads and the Effect of Home Music Engagement: A Longitudinal Study on Italian Children With Cochlear Implants.International journal of language & communication disordersMothers of children with cochlear implants responded to them less often than mothers of hearing children, and the implanted children overlapped their mothers' speech more, before and a year after implantation. In that group, more music at home went with shorter, steadier pauses between turns.
• SLPPilot2026Co-Design and Feasibility Testing of an AI-Based Virtual Reality Application to Prepare People With Intellectual Disability for Healthcare Visits.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDPeople with intellectual disability rehearsed a GP visit in AI-driven virtual reality and described the avatars as patient and easy to understand. Speech recognition errors and microphone delays meant the researcher had to step in repeatedly for most participants.
• PTCohort2026Feasibility of Physical Fitness Measurements in Older Adults With Intellectual Disabilities Within Two Large Cohort Studies: The HA-ID and IDS-TILDA Study.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDRThese four fitness tests are feasible in large studies of older adults with intellectual disabilities. Grip strength was easiest to complete; full tandem balance and the step test were hardest. Severe or profound intellectual disability and wheelchair use were the main barriers.
• PTQualitative2026Caring for a child with a lower respiratory tract infection: Parents' perspectives.The South African journal of physiotherapyCaring for a child under 3 with a chest infection was described as exhausting: lost sleep, missed work and money drained by medicines and visits. Most valued being present during physiotherapy and wanted procedures explained; suctioning looked worse than anything else.
• SLPCohort2026Functioning, temporal resolution, and functional health literacy in children aged nine to twelve years.CoDASChildren whose caregivers reported trouble with conversation were more likely to struggle with health information (p = 0.012). A test of how quickly they noticed changes in sound found no such link. This is an association, not proof of cause.
• OTOther2026Analyzing sentiment shifts in news coverage of occupational accidents: A case study of the Amasra mining disaster in Türkiye.Work (Reading, Mass.)No clinical finding. This analyses how the emotional tone of news coverage of a coal mine disaster changed over time. No patients, no treatment and no health outcome were studied.
• OTQualitative2026Residential Transitions in Supported Living: Experiences of Adults With Intellectual Disabilities and Parents.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARIDAdults with intellectual disabilities and their parents described years of uncertain waiting with little real choice, then a fast move and a long settling-in where staff rules governed daily life. Parents felt sidelined but still carried the burden.
• PTQualitative2026Experiences of physiotherapists audited by South African medical funding schemes.The South African journal of physiotherapySouth African physiotherapists audited over billing said they were fined up to R4.5 million over note-taking, had payments frozen until they signed admissions of debt, and were treated as guilty from the start. None was found guilty by their council or a court.
• PTOTSystematic Review2026Do Leg-Focused Exercises Improve Arm and Hand Function for Individuals With Neurologic Disorders? A Scoping Review.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationLeg training came with better arm and hand function in half of 12 small studies; the other half found no change, and none found harm. Almost none of the studies actually tested this, so it is a research question, not a treatment.
• SLPOther2026Assessing Inpatient Rehabilitation Outcomes for Pediatric Dysphagia with the PEDI-EAT-10.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationIn 23 children on one inpatient rehab unit, a caregiver questionnaire about swallowing fell from a mean of 15.26 at admission to 8.30 at discharge. With no control group, some of that may be ordinary recovery.
• SLPOther2026Benefit of Amplification at Low Input Levels in Normal-Hearing Listeners.Trends in hearingA 15 dB hearing-aid boost let young adults with normal hearing follow soft speech with less effort than listening with the open ear, although it never improved how much they understood. Hearing aids set to no gain made thresholds, understanding and effort worse.
• OTSurvey2026Navigating Cognitive Screening and Service Delivery for Sensory Impairment in Occupational Therapy.Canadian journal of occupational therapy. Revue canadienne d'ergotherapieOccupational therapists adapted cognitive screening most for clients who are hard of hearing, less for vision impairment, and least for dual sensory impairment, where nine of 90 made no adaptation. Satisfaction was lowest for dual sensory impairment.
• PTRCT2026Feasibility and Tolerance of High-Intensity Interval Training in Adults With Cystic Fibrosis.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationIn adults with cystic fibrosis, high-intensity interval training during a three-week inpatient stay was as well tolerated as conventional rehabilitation, with no serious adverse events, and gave similar gains in walking distance and lung function. It added nothing extra and was enjoyed less.
• SLPQualitative2026Multilingual Parents' Experiences of an Early Language and Literacy Intervention: A Qualitative Study Using the Behaviour Change Wheel.Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica : official organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP)Gift packs and home visits from a library 'language starter' showed parents who spoke another language at home how to start reading, singing and playing with their child earlier. They valued being told their child could learn both languages. Parents' accounts only.
• OTQualitative2026The Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Preschoolers With Disabilities: Occupational Therapists' Perspectives.Canadian journal of occupational therapy. Revue canadienne d'ergotherapieMost of the 11 Canadian occupational therapists had never heard of the 24-Hour Movement Guidelines. Once shown them, they saw the advice as fitting their role, but called the daily hourly targets too rigid for children with disabilities and wanted a flexible resource.
• PTOTQualitative2026Life after the hospital: Lived experience of people with traumatic spinal cord injury in a resource-constrained setting - a qualitative study.The South African journal of physiotherapyFor these 19 Rwandans with spinal cord injury, losing income and their sense of value shaped daily life. Family support and contact with others with the same injury helped; inaccessible homes, ill-fitting donated wheelchairs and public attitudes kept people out.
• PTSystematic Review2026The global profile of individuals undergoing total knee replacement surgery through a PROGRESS-PLUS equity lens: A systematic review.The South African journal of physiotherapyNearly all 101 studies of people having knee replacement came from high-income countries, and none from Africa. Participants were 54% to 86% women with mean ages of 65 to 75, but income, education and job status were rarely recorded.
• SLPQualitative2026Sources of perceived stress in people with aphasia: a qualitative study.AphasiologyPeople with chronic aphasia described stress that begins with communication breakdowns and spreads: losing the ability to do former tasks, losing work and social roles, and being treated as incompetent in public. Several described a loop where avoiding conversation deepens isolation and stress.
• PTSystematic Review2026Elements of social accountability in undergraduate health sciences curricula: A scoping review.The South African journal of physiotherapyCommunity engagement, equity, advocacy and interdisciplinary teamwork were the elements most often recommended for undergraduate health sciences curricula across 47 studies. Only 12 of the 47 covered all four core values, and no patient outcomes were measured.
• SLPOther2026Behavioral tests of auditory processing: a study on reference values for normal-hearing adults.CoDASHealthy adults' scores on gap detection, pitch and duration patterns, and dichotic digits all fall as they get older, while the masking level difference test stays steady from 18 to 59. The authors propose separate cut-offs by age instead of one adult norm.
• OTSystematic Review2026School and School-Related Experiences of Children and Adolescents With Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Scoping Review.Child: care, health and developmentChildren with IBD miss more school than healthy peers: 24 days for Crohn's disease and 21 for colitis in one French sample, against 5.1 for controls. Symptoms and hospital appointments drive most of it. Grades were largely unaffected; school support and social life were not.
• OTOther2025Evaluating the changes in attitudes towards mental illness and physical disabilities after an anti-stigma course for occupational therapy students.Hong Kong journal of occupational therapy : HKJOTStudents who chose an anti-stigma course with community contact and role-play reported less stigma towards physical disability afterwards than students in a sociology class, whose attitudes got worse. Both groups stayed more reluctant about mental illness than physical disability.
• OTSystematic Review2025Establishing Therapeutic Relationships with Immigrant Families of Disabled Children: A Scoping Review.Canadian journal of occupational therapy. Revue canadienne d'ergotherapieTherapists and immigrant families built trust through practical communication and collaboration, not through named cultural frameworks. Bilingual staff, interpreters, home visits, cultural brokers and shared goal-setting mattered most. Most strategies were therapist-led, which can keep families cast as the 'other'.
• SLPCohort2026Development and validation of the Brazilian voice bank for various emotions (EMOVOX-BR).CoDASTen experienced voice therapists correctly identified the intended emotion in more than 70% of the clips in a new Brazilian Portuguese audio bank of 39 recordings. They relied on pitch for every emotion, and on loudness only for anger.
• OTQualitative2026Prescribing Assistive Technology for Cognition to Support Aging in Place: OTs' Perspective.Canadian journal of occupational therapy. Revue canadienne d'ergotherapieOccupational therapists prescribe cognitive assistive technology mainly for complex, multi-step tasks like medication management, and when they judge the client still has procedural memory to learn it. Late referrals, clients who do not see their own limits, and absent family caregivers hold them back.
• PTPilot2026Impact of a Therapeutic Dance Program Compared With Circuit Physiotherapy in Rehabilitation of Older People With Recent Acquired Brain Injury: A Randomized Controlled Feasibility Trial With Embedded Qualitative Assessment.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationDance classes for people within two years of a stroke or brain injury were practical to run and safe, and matched circuit physiotherapy for walking and balance. Dance brought better mood and less fatigue, but only during the 10 weeks.
• PTOTMeta-Analysis2026Effectiveness of Rehabilitation Interventions on Participation in Children and Adolescents With Unilateral Cerebral Palsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translationAround 840 children and teenagers with one-sided cerebral palsy improved on participation measures after rehabilitation, but no study compared therapy with no treatment, and no single therapy beat another.
• PTOther2026Relationship between plantar fascia thickness in static standing and calf raise positions and the medial longitudinal arch height ratio in healthy adults.Journal of physical therapy scienceThe plantar fascia measures thinner on ultrasound during a calf raise (2.12 mm) than in standing (2.39 mm) in healthy adults. Arch height was unrelated. All 30 participants were healthy young adults, so this is not evidence about treating heel pain.
• PTProtocol2026Effects of Whole-Body Electromyostimulation on the Thickness of Appendicular and Respiratory Muscles, Functionality, and Frailty in Patients From a Transitional Care Unit: A Randomized Clinical Trial Protocol.Physiotherapy research international : the journal for researchers and clinicians in physical therapyNo results are reported yet. This is the published plan for a trial of whole-body electrical stimulation added to physiotherapy in a transitional care unit, so it cannot tell you whether the treatment works.